Interfacial layering in the electric double layer of ionic liquids

JP de Souza, ZAH Goodwin, M McEldrew… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
Ions in ionic liquids and concentrated electrolytes reside in a crowded, strongly interacting
environment, leading to the formation of discrete layers of charges at interfaces and spin …

Water at ionic liquids-solid interfaces

R Qiao - Current Opinion in Electrochemistry, 2019 - Elsevier
The inevitable presence of water at the interfaces of ionic liquids and solid surfaces can
either be a nuisance or a delight, depending on the applications. Here, researches on the …

Theory of ion aggregation and gelation in super-concentrated electrolytes

M McEldrew, ZAH Goodwin, S Bi, MZ Bazant… - The Journal of …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
In concentrated electrolytes with asymmetric or irregular ions, such as ionic liquids and
solvent-in-salt electrolytes, ion association is more complicated than simple ion-pairing …

Correlation length in concentrated electrolytes: Insights from all-atom molecular dynamics simulations

SW Coles, C Park, R Nikam, M Kanduc… - The Journal of …, 2020 - ACS Publications
We study the correlation length of the charge–charge pair correlations in concentrated
electrolyte solutions by means of all-atom, explicit-solvent molecular dynamics simulations …

Continuum theory of electrostatic correlations at charged surfaces

JP de Souza, MZ Bazant - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2020 - ACS Publications
The standard model for diffuse charge phenomena in colloid science, electrokinetics, and
biology is the Poisson–Boltzmann mean-field theory, which breaks down for multivalent ions …

[HTML][HTML] Gelation, clustering, and crowding in the electrical double layer of ionic liquids

ZAH Goodwin, M McEldrew… - The Journal of …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Understanding the bulk and interfacial properties of super-concentrated electrolytes, such as
ionic liquids (ILs), has attracted significant attention lately for their promising applications in …

Theory of cation solvation and ionic association in nonaqueous solvent mixtures

ZAH Goodwin, M McEldrew, B Kozinsky, MZ Bazant - PRX Energy, 2023 - APS
Conventional lithium-ion batteries, and many next-generation technologies, rely on organic
electrolytes with multiple solvents to achieve the desired physicochemical and interfacial …

[HTML][HTML] Cracking ion pairs in the electrical double layer of ionic liquids

ZAH Goodwin, AA Kornyshev - Electrochimica Acta, 2022 - Elsevier
Here we investigate a limiting case of the theory for aggregation and gelation in the
electrical double layer (EDL) of ionic liquids (ILs). The limiting case investigated only …

Chasing Aqueous Biphasic Systems from Simple Salts by Exploring the LiTFSI/LiCl/H2O Phase Diagram

N Dubouis, C Park, M Deschamps… - ACS central …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Aqueous biphasic systems (ABSs), in which two aqueous phases with different compositions
coexist as separate liquids, were first reported more than a century ago with polymer …

Correlated ion transport and the gel phase in room temperature ionic liquids

M McEldrew, ZAH Goodwin, H Zhao… - The Journal of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Here we present a theory of ion aggregation and gelation of room temperature ionic liquids
(RTILs). Based on it, we investigate the effect of ion aggregation on correlated ion transport …